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She was Caryll Houselander, a twentieth-century Englishwoman whose unusual life fulfilled a singular vision—that each of us, in our God-created uniqueness, contributes something irreplaceable to the continued incarnation of Christ on earth. She called this the "Christing of the world."
She was a self-described “neurotic,” and an emotionally neglected child of divorce.
She was a chain-smoking, carrot-haired “gnome,” who applied powder so thickly that she looked like she had “dipped her face in white flour.”
She was a mystic who “saw” the murdered Czar Alexander of Russia.
She was a self-taught psychologist who treated children traumatized by war.
She was a wood-carver, a poet, and an author.
Caryll’s innate gifts and unusual personality, bent further from the norm by early rejection from family members, gave her a hard-won appreciation and acceptance of human diversity. Though she would continue to struggle with some of the effects of her rough start in life, she would also draw on it to develop a special empathy for the marginalized, rejected, and dysfunctional.
The First Vision—A Crown of Thorns. Frances Caryll Houselander was born…
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Exquisite.